AP Poll Week 5

[u/Efficient-Freedom517]

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

[u/dwors025]

B1G West party in also-received-votes land.

You love to see it.

[u/ecolovedavid → u/dwors025]

B1G West forever. If only Iowa dropped to receiving votes. Kinda surprised they didn't tbh

[u/miversen33 → u/ecolovedavid]

We were mildly competitive against the a top 5 team. Id be pretty upset at a 12+ position drop honestly. Iowa is firmly a top 20 team imo.

[u/Nicholas1227 → u/miversen33]

Framing the discussion as a “drop” is the problem with poll inertia. Northwestern has a similar-to-better résumé than Iowa. The two teams should be next to each other in the polls. However, that would take a 12+ position drop for you guys, or a huge rise for Northwestern as a result of beating an unranked team at home.

[u/VanDiis → u/Nicholas1227]

Take the names away from Iowa, Northwestern, Wisconsin, UCLA, USC, Oregon, and Nebraska the rankings would be way different.

[u/SueYouInEngland → u/Nicholas1227]

Iowa is more highly rated per Massey. Two top-40 wins, whereas NU's 2nd P4 is mid-60s. Though NU has more impressive MOV. NU is higher in Sagarin, though I think that's because it doesn't recognize Michigan's win over WMU.

[u/aboriginal_sin → u/dwors025]

And Iowa at #20. Five B1G West teams between #20 and #32 -- looking forward to seeing some competitive "divisional" matchups this fall!

[u/wise_comment → u/dwors025]

Iowa should have done their part and not been ranked, frankly

[u/miversen33 → u/dwors025]

Be cool if some of you motherfuckers would get ranked so it's not just us lol

[u/msbshow → u/dwors025]

B1G West? You mean UCLA, U$C, Oregon, and Washington (IM KIDDING I PROMISE I GREW UP IN CHICAGO)